HC Deb 25 November 1997 vol 301 cc490-2W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the secondary schools which are partially selective, indicating those which band their intake; and if he will make a statement. [17762]

Ms Estelle Morris

The Department does not hold comprehensive information on partially selective schools or those which band their intake. Information is available only on those schools which since 1989 have had statutory proposals approved to introduce partial selection and those grant maintained schools which received approval to select up to 10 per cent. of their pupils on the basis of ability or aptitude in certain specified subjects between January 1989 and August 1996. This is provided in the following tables.

Proposals to Introduce Partial Selection Approved since 1989
LEA area School name Type of selection
Grant maintained
Barnet Mill Hill County High School 30 per cent. by aptitude for technology
Bromley Hayes GM Secondary School 25 per cent. Selection by ability
Berkshire Southlands School One selective form of entry (18 per cent.)
Dorset Budmouth GM School 10 per cent. selection by ability
Hammersmith and Fulham London Oratory School 20 boys at age 7 on musical and general ability
Hertfordshire Watford Grammar School for Girls 50 per cent. selection by ability
Hertfordshire Watford Grammar School for Boys 50 per cent. selection by ability
Hertfordshire Parmiters School 50 per cent. selection by ability
Hertfordshire Rickmansworth School 50 per cent. selection by ability
Hertfordshire Chancellors School 10 per cent. partial selection
Kent Homewood School 20 per cent. selection by ability
Kingston Holy Cross School 15 per cent. selection by ability
Lambeth Archbishop Tenison's GM School banding including 40 per cent. of above average ability
Lambeth St. Martin in the Fields High School
Lambeth Dunraven GM School
Proposals to Introduce Partial Selection Approved since 1989
LEA area School name Type of selection
Surrey Roseberry GM Girls's School 30 per cent. selection on academic ability and 10 places on aptitude for music
Wandsworth Graveney GM School 50 per cent. selection by ability
Wandsworth Burntwood School 50 per cent. selection by ability
County
Wandsworth Ernest Bevin School Partial Selection
Wandsworth Chestnut Grove School Partial Selection
Wandsworth Battersea Technology College Partial Selection
Grant maintained schools introducing selection of up to 10 per cent. of their intake between July 1989 to August 1996
LEA School Nature of change
Havering Abbs Cross School 10 per cent. Music
Bromley Beaverwood Girls School 10 per cent. Performing Arts (Music and Dance)
Kingston Upon Thames Beverley School 10 per cent. Art or Music
Hertfordshire Bishop's Stortford School 10 per cent. Music, Sport or Drama
Kent Canterbury High School 10 per cent. Music
Kensington and Chelsea Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School 10 per cent. Music
Hertfordshire Chancellors School 10 per cent. Music, Drama or Sport
Kent Charles Dickens High School 10 per cent. Music
Kent Chatham Grammar School for Girls 10 per cent. Music, Sport or Drama
Norfolk Cliff Park High School 10 per cent. Music
Bromley Cooper's School 10 per cent. Music, Drama, Dance or Sport
Hampshire Crofton School Five places Music
Hertfordshire Dame Alice Owen School 10 per cent. Music or Sport
Kent Dane Court Grammar School 10 per cent. Music, Sport, Drama or any unusual talent
Cambridgeshire Deacons School 10 per cent. Technology
Lambeth Dunraven School 10 per cent. Music
Enfield Enfield Grammar School 10 per cent. Music or Sport
Hertfordshire Goffs School 10 per cent. Music, Drama, Sport or Languages
Surrey Heathside School 10 per cent. Music or Sport
Barnet Hendon School 10 per cent. Music
Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and Essex High School 10 per cent Music, Sport or Drama
Surrey Hinchley Wood School 10 per cent. Music
Bromley Kemnal Manor School 10 per cent. Technology
Essex King Edward VI Grammar School Three places for Choristers
Cambridgeshire Kings' School 10 per cent. Music and Choristers
Lambeth La Retraite School 10 per cent. Music
Camden La Sainte Union Convent School 10 per cent. Music
Kent Langley Park School for Boys 10 per cent. Music or Sport
Hertfordshire Leventhorpe School 10 per cent. Music
Lincolnshire Lincoln Christ's Hospital School 10 per cent. Music
Barnet Mill Hill County School 10 per cent. Music
Hertfordshire Queen's School 10 per cent. Music, Art or Sport
Kent Rainham Mark 10 per cent. Music. Sport,
Grammar School Drama or any unusual talent
Essex Rainsford High School 10 per cent. Music or Drama
Kent Robert Naipier School 10 per cent. Music. Sport, Drama or any unusual talent
Kent St. George's CE School 10 per cent. Music
Surrey Thamesmead School 10 per cent. Music
Essex Ursuline Convent School 10 per cent. Music
Kent Westland High School 10 per cent. Music
Surrey Winston Churchill School six per cent. Music
Norfolk Wymondham College 10 per cent. Music

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